Other Wonder Workers part 3
Posted by dodo on May-9-2008
Kelp
This amazing seaweed contains more vitamins and minerals than any other food. To be more specific, kelp has vitamin B2, niacin, choline, carotene, and algenic acid, as well as twenty-three minerals which range as follows:
| Iodine |
0.15-0.20% |
Magnesium | 0.70% |
| Calcium | 1.20% | Sulphur | 0.93% |
| Phosphorus | 0.30% | Chlorine | 12.21% |
| Iron | 0.10% | Copper | 0.0008% |
| Sodium | 3.14% | Zinc | 0.0003% |
| Potassium | 0.63% | Manganese | 0.0008% |
Plus traces of: barium, boron, chromium, lithium, nickel,silver, titanium, vanadium, aluminium, strontium, and silicon. Because of its natural iodine content, kelp has a normalising effect on the thyroid gland. In other words, thin people with thyroid trouble can gain weight by using kelp and obese people can lose weight with it. Read the rest of this entry »
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